My music growth plan timeline has been quite manageable for me to follow, which also alleviates some of the stress of learning a new instrument. With regards to Ode to Joy, I found that the bars are quite similar throughout the song, so that has also been helpful! Even though I have completed my goals of learning Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Ode to Joy I will continue to play these pieces, as it is nice to have a variety of things to practice, not just one song.

The next song that I will be focusing on learning is Let it Be by The Beatles. This song seems like it will be more challenging than the other two I have already learned.  With that in mind, I gave myself more time (February 27 – March 27) to complete this song, as I was accounting for that. I will follow the same process for learning the other songs, which was learning the right hand first and then the right and then allow myself time to practice playing both hands together. I am overall very happy with my progress with learning the piano and am excited to try and learn my new song!

Piano Progress Videos:

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Ode to Joy

Note: I found it much harder to play when recording the video. I would play the song almost perfectly and then as soon as I had it recorded I would make mistakes where I normally wouldn’t have! I’m sure others experienced something similar.